MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) has closed this Friday the accounting of the number of licenses for the year 2022 with slightly higher numbers -756 more licenses- than those of 2019, before the pandemic, after a 2020-2021 season with many competitions suspended due to the virus, according to a statement.
Specifically, Spanish basketball has submitted to the Higher Sports Council a final number of licenses for the 2021-2022 season of 377,108. A figure that exceeds that of the difficult 2020-2021 season by more than 100,000, with many competitions postponed or suspended, and higher than that of 2019-2020, which closed at 376,352.
By categories, in 2019 245,813 male licenses were recorded, a figure that fell to 173,962 in 2020 to recover to 246,464 last season. The trend is similar in female licenses, since before the pandemic there were 130,539, in 2020 it went to 98,483 and 2022 closed with 130,644. “A figure that, in the absence of confirmation of data from the CSD, once again places basketball as the sport with the most female licenses in all of Spain,” said the FEB.
By CCAA, the ranking is still led by the Community of Madrid (79,455), Catalonia (74,947), the Valencian Community (41,470), the Basque Country (34,748) and Andalusia (29,340), confirmed the Federation.